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A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.

lk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.

To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

of ragout formerly cooked and served in the same dish; also, a dish consisting of several meats braised together and served in a terrine.

A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still. Keble.

Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats. Cassell (Dict. of Cookery).

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

s scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly,…

aining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.

A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover…

Food; pastry; sweetmeats. [Slang] T. Hughes.

dy and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.

To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

ss thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.